Just got back from Illinois, locked the front door, oh boy, got to sit down, take a rest on the porch...
We had a wonderful time in Montecito, during which I managed to work on nothing except my tan for four days. Yay me. Of course my brain didn't stop and I have millions of thoughts spilling out in all directions :)
Sadly, SpaceX launched their third rocket yesterday, and suffered their third failure. That was the Falcon 1; meanwhile they conducted a successful full thrust firing of their bigger Falcon 9 rocket. I am so rooting for them and we all know that rocket science is, well, rocket science, but oh-for-three is not good. Let's hope fourth time's a charm, as their ne[...]